Prashanth Shankar · Deep Dives

Wonderland

Science explained properly. No shortcuts, no oversimplification — just the actual ideas, as visually as possible, for anyone willing to follow the rabbit hole.


Published explainers

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Vol. 01 A Medical Explainer

The body turning on itself.

Type 1 diabetes isn't about sugar or lifestyle. It's the immune system demolishing the pancreas — silently, for years. The history, the biology, the daily reality, and the scientists racing to end it.

Immunology History Stem cells CGM chart 6 research labs
Vol. 02 A Science Explainer

Shape is everything.

Proteins are the machines of life. For 50 years, predicting their shape from a genetic sequence was one of the hardest problems in science. Then AlphaFold solved it in an afternoon.

Structural biology AlphaFold 3D viewer Folding sim CASP chart
Vol. 03 Coming

Something quantum.

Superposition, entanglement, and why quantum computers are genuinely different from every computer ever built.

Quantum computingPhysics
Soon
Vol. 04 Coming

The thinking machine.

What neural networks actually are, how transformers work, and what "intelligence" might even mean in this context.

AITransformers
Soon